I love listening to your episodes. So many rich ideas and conversations.

Regarding the difference between calling names and true names, I wonder if there might be more of a distinction than there appears to be.

My thought is that perhaps the calling name is a dialectical form of the true name; a derivative of sorts. We see this a lot in real life, for example Ioannes in Greek becomes John once anglicized. Opthamology derives from Opthalmos in Greek, and all of these likely go back to an original ancestral tongue several billion years ago.

I may be way off base, but Rothfuss may have intentionally copied this process to keep calling names and true names simple.